New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-25
THE TELEPHONE CASES.
HEARING BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT.
A GREAT ARRAY OF COUNSEL BEGIN THE FINAL At

A GREAT ARRAY OF COUNSEL BEGIN THE FINAL Al
TACK on THE BELL PATENT
WASHINGTON Jan "a (SpeciaD.-The Supreme court
room was thgonged to-day with people who had co'c "
witness the proceedings in the telephone cases. pro
nent figure the crowd Alexander Graham ben III
INVENTOR who paid close attention to the rather prosy anu
technical speech OF the leading counsel In beha Oh inc
Dobear inventor Behind Bell sat his father ana uhce
whose faces became familiar during tho sithss o no
Pan Electric Committee Within the bar the tormdaoie
array OF opposing counsel was reinforced y tue
OF Messrs Boyle Ranney and Mard OF the Pan-Eiectro
Committee Exsolcitor General John GOode. now one
OF the counsel in the Government Pan-Electrc suit; OK
Congressman Casey Young, and Jefferson Chandler also
OF the Government attorneys In the Procce""s
against the Bell Company. Nearly dozen men mp
peared the various suits against the Bell company III
GLIDING Senator Edmunds, Grosvenor Lowrey OF New
York. and Don NJ. Dickerson of Detroit Seven OF them
to submit oral arguments For the Bell Company Sp
pear Edward N. Dickinson, ofNewYork; his colleagues
the venerable Chauncey Smith, Of Boston, and Stor
row.
All the Justices were present except Justice wooas
OF the fact that his relatives are holders OF consaerapo
amount Of telephone stock has decided not %
Mr. Maynadier should open for the defence In the
Dobear ". IL Peckham In the Molecular case ana
Lysander Hill in the Drawbaugh case. Mr. Storrow VIII
then open the argument for the Bell
view OF the importance OF these cases. had decided To
postpone the usual February recess one week ana aow
o'clock J. l.. Maynader opened the argument IN the DOL
bear case. - r,.Ao.. .ho
The cases are Ave in number. and in all OF them the
American Bell Telephone Company ID the appeuee me
appellants In these ard the courts from when the
appeals come, rs follows: -, Al.
United States Circuit Court for the District OF Massachu
sets. , ..
THE Molecular Telephone Company and Others
from the United states Circuit Court for tho southern
3~The Clay Commercial Telephone Company and
others from the United States Circuit Court IOr TIC LAST
ern District OF Pennsylvania , H..
4-The Peoples Telephone Company and others from
the United states Circuit Court Tor the Southern Dsc
Of New-York. ,.,. s.u,
5-The Overland Telephone Company and others rom
the United states Circuit Court for the southerh Dsc'
OF New-YOrk -, .,o,oo,
These cases are series OF appeals from the prncpai
suits in which the Bell patents OF March Z, aSIo anu
January 80 1877, have been htigated Inc hrs.,
or Dolbear case grew out OF SUIT ior a., az
Infringement brought by the Bell Company against te
Dolbear Company in Massachusetts,. The later com.
pany set up as lis defence first that Mr. Bell was not
the original inventor of the speaking tcleph0ne-Ht
was invented by German. one Res ana uescrige ~. ~,
printed publications ten years more before Mr. pen
tme and second that the form OF telephone USED y te
DObcar Company entirely Inherent from nsI VI LILO
Bell Company. . l. A.. lamar
courts in all OF these the meaning ana con
sruction the Bell patent, the question what speak
ing telephone i the comparison or the Invention set
forth IN the Bell patent with the previous state OF arr
and particularly With the Refs telephone ana the mean
Ing and scope OF Mr. Bells claims on which the Issue OF
infringement turns. The litigation has given rise 70
records containing thiry-hve or forty volumes OF eN
dence and arguments There now twenty volumes OI
record now before this court containing nearly loVoo
printed pages, besides youminous briefs